The Tennyson Society’s Annual Wreath-laying Ceremony will be at noon on 12 October at Westminster Abbey. The event marks Tennyson’s death in October 1892. Lunch at a nearby restaurant will follow the event. For more details, please contact Dr. Marion Sherwood, mfs@letterbox.me.uk
On 21 March at 6pm, there will be a live performance of Tennyson’s Enoch Arden with Strauss’s specially written piano accompaniment. It will be held at The Cockpit in Marylebone. It is part of a short concert series given by Alex Raineri, the Artistic Director of… Read More »Enoch Arden to be performed at The Cockpit
Tennyson Annual Weekend Friday 17th May until Monday 20th May 2024 Dear Tennyson Society Member, Next year’s annual Tennyson weekend will be from Friday 17th May until Monday 20th May 2024., on the theme of ‘Tennyson and Women‘.We will explore Elizabeth Russell’s (Tennyson’s aunt’s) castle… Read More »Tennyson Annual Weekend 2024
Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) Oscar WildePencil on paper, undatedGeorge Arents Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lennox and Tilden Foundations The New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY October 20,… Read More »Max Beerbohm: The Price of Celebrity
CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2023 Annual General Meeting at 2pm at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. followed at 2pm by the Annual Lecture given by Professor Saverio Tomaiuolo, Associate Professor of English at the University of Cassino and Southern Latium in Italy.
Linda K. Hughes on ‘Elegies of Tennyson and Michael Field: Reclaiming and Transcending Loved Remains’6 October 2022.
Our Annual Weekend Conference will take place in Hastings, East Sussex, from 19 – 22 May. We will be based at the Royal Victoria Hotel on the seafront, where the young Princess Victoria stayed (her signature is in the Visitors’ Book), and will visit the… Read More »TENNYSON SOCIETY WEEKEND 2023
‘one who would have adorned his age and country, a mind full of beauty and power’ (W.E.Gladstone) ‘I little dreamed how soon his name might become a sacred one’ (James Spedding) Arthur Henry Hallam died, of a cerebral haemorrhage, in a hotel room in Vienna… Read More »Arthur Henry Hallam